Dress Acquired!

Well, I got my dress. Yesterday my mom and I went to a David's Bridal store. I chose that store not only because they'd have a lot of dresses, which would increase my chances of seeing one that I'd like without shopping around, but also because they were cheap. And so am I.

I got there and initially it was just as I'd thought - highly pastel, chirpy salespeople, weeping mothers, the whole nine yards. I had looked at pictures of dresses online so I had an idea of the ones I wanted, so my mom and I hurriedly grabbed some in a couple different sizes.

When a dressing room became vacant we were hustled over and I began trying on dresses. I had no idea that wedding dresses were so absurd to put on. There's a zillion layers of fluffy stuff and it's insanely heavy. I found a hole in the center where my body was supposed to go, wiggled in, and waddled outside to be buttoned up.

This is the first one I tried on which, unfortunately, didn't work out too well. The bottom edging looks cool, but it kept flipping up, and the back thing doesn't really stay all nice and swept out in real life. I also tried on this one, but in real life it's less billowy and more saggy. Plus all those billows are held in place with tacky rhinestone things, which you can't really see in the photo.

I also tried on a few more that my mom and I randomly pulled off the rack - one had a square halter top that did my broad shoulders no favors, and another had beading so heavy that it could deflect bullets.

***WARNING - Mike, stop reading!***

See, Mike's a little superstitious and doesn't want to see my dress until the day of the event. Ah well, it'll be a surprise. The dress I wound up choosing was actually the second dress I tried on. When my mom saw a picture of it on the internet she hated it because it has black embroidery. But when I tried it on, it fit great and looked very nice, so my mom loved it despite the color. You can check out my dress by clicking here. It's a photo album by FreeWebs, which is actually pretty cool. In the pictures I'm wearing a tiara and veil from the store, but I'm not getting those. I'm making them. People who buy that stuff from bridal stores are suckers - at Michael's I found a great little tiara for twenty bucks, and a veil kit for fourteen. I think that at David's they wanted $140 for the tiara alone. Screw that.

So, the wedding is coming along. We have a few more big things to cover - photographer, wedding bands - but it'll all get done. Weddings are SO much less stressful than I thought.